Jorma Hynninen
Jorma Hynninen is one of the most important figures in contemporary Scandinavian music and in music administration, a champion of new compositions who has not only made them a focus of the venues where he has acted as artistic director, but also given them life in riveting musical and dramatic performances. While considerably less well known outside of Scandinavia, he has been praised worldwide for his roles in the standard operatic repertoire and is considered one of the best performers of his day of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Wolfram in Tannhauser, and Posa in Verdi's Don Carlo, as well as an accomplished lieder and song performer, with his warm, flexible voice, and strong vocal and physical acting abilities.
He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Matti Tuloisela and Antii Koskinen, and after graduating, went to Rome to study with Luigi Ricci. He won the Lappeenranta song competition in 1969 and made his opera debut with the Finnish National Opera in the same year as Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. He made his Paris debut in Pelléas et Mélisande in 1980, the year of his New York debut in a Carnegie Hall recital. Also that year, he became artistic director of Finland's Joensuu Song Festival, holding that position for 11 years. His Met debut was in 1984 in Don Carlo, the same year in which he became the artistic director of the Finnish National Opera, a post he held until 1990. Two years later, he was named artistic director of the Savonlinna Festival, one of the world's most prestigious music festivals. While maintaining this responsibility, he continues to sing worldwide, including contemporary and Romantic-era Scandinavian music, German lieder, and Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and Mozart, and the more lyric Verdi roles. The Sibelius Academy appointed him professor of the arts in 1990 and professor of singing in 1997.
Hynninen has created the title roles of Rautavaara's Thomas in 1985 and Vincent (based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh) in 1990, Sallinen's The Red Line in 1978, The King Goes Forth to France in 1984, and Kullervo in 1990, and Merikanto's Juha in 1978. He has also recorded other contemporary music, such as Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero, popular love songs, and spirituals.
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Kauneimmat Joululaulut
Classical - Released by Ondine on Nov 1, 2013
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Vocal Recital: Hynninen, Jorma (Evergreen Love Songs)
Jorma Hynninen, Heikki Sarmanto
Pop/Rock - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1993
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Opera Arias (Baritone) - Hynninen, Jorma
Jorma Hynninen, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas
Opera - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1989
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Opera Gala
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Oct 27, 2008
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Jean Sibelius : Orchestral Songs
Jorma Hynninen, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jul 26, 1994
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Vocal Recital: Hynninen, Jorma - TURUNEN, M. / MERIKANTO, O. / MADETOJA, L. / HANNIKAINEN, I. (Mina laulan sun iltasi tahtihin, Summer Moods)
Jorma Hynninen, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1997
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Vocal Recital: Davis, Osceola / Hynninen, Jorma - Negro Spirituals
Osceola Davis, Jorma Hynninen, Ilmo Ranta
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1988
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CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Finnish - Jouluna Jumala syntyi) (Tapiola Choir)
Tapiola Choir, Jorma Hynninen, Uki Ovaskainen, Erkki Pohjola, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Jorma Panula
Classical - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1994
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Jean Sibelius : Lieder
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Fazer Records - Finlandia on Jul 11, 1986
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Metsän poika – On the Fields of Tapiola
Jorma Hynninen, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Alba on Feb 18, 2013
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MERIKANTO, O.: Songs (Hynninen)
Jorma Hynninen, Ilkka Paananen
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 2008
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Schubert: Winterreise
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Nov 1, 2013
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Merikanto: Juha, Op. 25
Opera - Released by Ondine on Sep 3, 2021
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Joulun kellot
Jorma Hynninen, Helsinki Brass Quartet
Classical - Released by Edition TROY on Oct 29, 2012
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Klami: Intermezzo & Symphonie Enfantine - Kesti: Fantasia
Kymi Sinfonietta, Jorma Hynninen, Juha Nikkola
Chamber Music - Released by Alba on Jan 1, 2000
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Pekka Nuotio — Opera Arias (Recorded 1973-1981)
Pekka Nuotio, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Hynninen, Kari Tikka, Hannu Bister, Okko Kamu
Opera - Released by Ondine on Aug 1, 1997
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SALLINEN, A.: Songs of Life and Death / The Iron Age Suite (Hynninen)
Jorma Hynninen, Opera Festival Chorus, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Okko Kamu
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 1995
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Rachmaninov: The Bells Choral Symphony, Op. 35 & Spring Cantata, Op. 20
Jorma Hynninen, Elena Ustinova, Danish National Radio Choir, Kurt Westi, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Chandos on Sep 1, 1991
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JARNEFELT, A.: Lieder (Hynninen, Nylund)
Jorma Hynninen, Camilla Nylund, Ilkka Paananen
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on Jan 1, 2003
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